Comment by ibejoeb
2 years ago
I don't understand the focus on recipes, though, since USPTO explicitly carves out recipes as works not protected by copyright. There's no reason not to search for a recipe and extract "a statement of the ingredients and procedure required for making a dish."
There were a number of headlines a while back about ChatGPT suggesting recipes that could create chlorine gas, create a poison, called for human flesh, and others.
The prompt tells it specifically "You can make up recipes though," so I don't think they're concerned with nonsense/dangerous recipes in that section.
I was going through my book collection the other day and it occurred to me that a recipe book is one of the only good ways (for now) to tell that a recipe was tested and designed rather than generated. That and a reputable author online publishing one, I suppose.
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